Your opinion matters.

Yeah, I agree and I've often thought about that. When you look on talent shows you kind of see it. Let's take the cheesy and easy example of Susan Boyle. She's got a good enough voice to get those deals that she did but wouldn't have gotten them if not for a talent show. What if she never went on that show? She would have just died without ever being known for her voice at all. There must be other people about to die very soon in a position just like she was in: great voice but unknown. Same with any other talent. If everyone could find out what they were really good and be free to excel in those points it'd surely be a different world. Functional? Probably not. Like it or not, our society requires those people who never reach their full potential.

I often wonder what I'm really good at. I have some ideas but I find I really lack motivation to pursue those skills and talents and develop them. I'm also really fucking depressed so that might contribute to the lack of motivation. But sometimes I do wonder if I'll just die without ever finding anything I like to do that's productive.